In The Media
The Prostate Cancer Quandary
Scientists may soon be able to answer the agonizing question facing men with prostate cancer: Does their cancer need immediate treatment or can it be left alone? » Read More
The Great Prostate Mistake
EACH year some 30 million American men undergo testing for prostate-specific antigen, an enzyme made by the prostate... » Read More
As Technology Surges, Radiation Safeguards Lag
In New Jersey, 36 cancer patients at a veterans hospital in East Orange were overradiated — and 20 more received substandard treatment — by a medical team that lacked experience.... » Read More
NCCN Guidelines for Prostate Cancer Updated to Stress Careful Consideration of Active Surveillance
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) recently updated the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines for Oncology™ .... » Read More
Which side effects of prostate cancer treatment would bother you least?
But there's also good news in the study from Mark Litwin, M.D., MPH, and colleagues: During the first two years after.... » Read More
In Health Reform, a Cancer Offers an Acid Test
For some liberals, reform will be a success only if it includes a new.... » Read More
Screen or Not? What Those Prostate Studies Mean
Last week, two major studies from the United States and Europe found that.... » Read More
Fighting Cancer Metastasis and Heavy Metal Toxicities With Modified Citrus Pectin
Despite billions of research dollars spent every year, cancer remains the second leading killer.... » Read More
U.S. Panel Questions Prostate Screening
The blood test that millions of men undergo each year to check for prostate cancer leads to... » Read More
New Take on a Prostate Drug, and a New Debate
A drug can cut the risk of developing prostate cancer, but not all experts agree that men should be taking it... » Read More
Male Hormones
Manny Hamelburg was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1987 at the age of 47. He received radiation treatment and thought he was out of the woods until the cancer returned five years later. It had spread to his bones..... » Read More
Strict diet, less stress can reverse prostate cancer
A groundbreaking study suggests that eating a low-fat diet, plus lifestyle changes, can slow or reverse the progression of prostate cancer in patients with early-stage disease..... » Read More
Treat or Wait?
Men over 70 are often counseled to delay treatment of early- stage prostate cancer, because these side effects can be so devastating and the disease is rarely fatal in less than 15 years. Increasingly, men in their 50s and 60s - whose tumors are now caught earlier because of improved testing - are also choosing.... » Read More
Prostate Cancer Decisions
If you're a man and you live long enough, chances are you will develop prostate cancer. Autopsy studies of those who have died of other causes have found most elderly men have traces of cancer in their prostate glands. For those in their 90s.... » Read More
The Prostate Paradox
On a recent spring morning, I spent several hours with Dr. Robert Eyre, a senior urological surgeon at my hospital, in Boston, watching him perform biopsies on men who might have prostate cancer. One patient was a forty-three-year-old office worker.... » Read More
Dairy Products Linked to Aggressive Prostate Cancer
American adults should consider drinking no more than one or two servings of milk a day-less than the current U.S. government recommendation of three.... » Read More
Wow, I Coulda Had a Lycopene!
In a recent study from North Carolina, drinking just one can (5.5 ounces) per day of the popular vegetable drink, V-8, raised levels of lycopene in the lungs by.... » Read More
